In 2012 B.A.P had international k-pop fans in the palm of their hand with their great punchy rock-based debut songs. Then they gradually mellowed out into more and more coffee-shop crap and now it all ends in tears 9 years later with the group scattered to the winds and ex-member Himchan charged for multiple crimes and attempting suicide.  Don’t go out like that, folks – stick to rock music, being a good person and keep rocking. Don’t end up like Himchan.  Ballads are no fun.  Ballads endanger the life and happiness of millions.   It must stop.  We appeal in particular to the youth of today.  Stop the ballads!  There are better things in life.

The shittiest thing about bullying accusations in k-pop is it completely changes the type of images that come up in any image search for the person. All of a sudden everyone starts favouring boring looking sullen, sunken-face type photos that are just drab. Stop being boring, all you other k-pop writers, use the most aegyo photos you can find. Fortunately I grabbed this one of Lia before the court case was finalised, she looks like she’s got a good eye-scratching technique there.

Han Seo Hee is getting more idols into trouble again but I just want SeoHeeChoPath back to be honest. I did email her about that plus a bunch of other stuff but I guess she’s too busy selling T-shirts with vague feminist slogans on them for $80 a pop or whatever.

Sure, Siwon may like Reagan and Trump but don’t worry SJ fans, I’m sure it’s less to do with politics and more because as a gay man he appreciates their suave dress sense.

It’s a sad week for Gfriend fans as one of the musically most consistent groups ever bites the dust way sooner than anyone had anticipated (except me ahem), but at least Yerin now has plenty of time to verify the contents of Chris P’s hard drive.

JB’s moody stare in this picture looks like it’s straight from his moodboard. Hopefully it stimulates a lot of ideas and things for his fans.

I know this isn’t very politically correct, but new YG CEO Hwang Bo-Kyung (pictured left) kind of mrs tbh. I know being attractive isn’t really her role, but if I was an employee doing some lower-rung job like changing coffee filters and she ordered me into the boardroom and told me to pull my pants down as some kind of new employee humiliation ritual (which I totally would believe goes on at YG if some anonymous insider told me) I’d probably just happily comply with it and then ask if there was anything else I could do for her.

If A.C.E’s label want to make some real money forget about cryptobullshit and just get the boys to do A2 size pin-up calendars like the firefighers do in Australia because our government is too stingy to fund public services, clear land properly or fight climate change so shit just burns to the ground all the time. Sorry, that got boring and political real quick, didn’t it. Just look at the legs and try not to think about it too much.

I guess Arin’s company charges one rate for her endorsing underwear, and a higher rate for her actually wearing the underwear while endorsing it. What a shame that the underwear company wouldn’t shell out for the top-tier option but you get what you pay for.

Did a photographer really take a secret upskirt photo of Winter on a photoshoot… mid-promotional interview, while they were wearing conspicuously long dresses? It doesn’t really matter, does it – k-pop fans are never ones to let the truth get in the way of a good cancelling.